Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austin hadn't come to discuss ways to improve education or reduce teen pregnancy. They were there to support a Bush campaign for President, and some were worried about his resolve. Recent news reports suggested the Governor might be having second thoughts about putting his wife Laura and their twin 17-year-old daughters through the media onslaught of a campaign. "We're ready to work for you," said one of the donors, "but we're hearing your wife and daughters don't want...
...Internet, where surfers flock to online auction sites such as eBay and Auction Universe. In a nation full of junk keepers, Roadshow is sending its 10 million viewers rummaging through their attics in the belief that "you could find a sleeper." So says appraiser Leigh Keno, who, along with twin brother Leslie, has become a celebrity from his appearances...
...child's arm stretches out, as far as it can, to pour water from a cup onto a scruffy potted plant. This, the first image in Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple, introduces with poetic clarity the film's strange, true story: of 12-year-old twin girls imprisoned by their father in their Tehran home, away from sunlight, from the friendship of other kids, from the smallest ecstasies and exasperations of childhood. This wise, poignant film was made under unusual circumstances. The father and the girls were persuaded to play themselves, and Makhmalbaf was only 17 when she shot...
...decisions, putting victims' needs first and trumpeting the rights of individuals over the state. "Like Harry Truman, Harry Blackmun really grew in office," notes TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, who covered Blackmun during much of the Justice's career. "Early on he was viewed as second-rate, the Minnesota twin of Warren Burger," Sanders notes. "But over time he split with the Chief Justice, finding his own voice on the court." Indeed, ever an open mind, Blackmun reversed his support for capital punishment in 1994. "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death," he wrote...
...left provided the paradigms that caused self-styled progressive and Marxist governments to kill 100 million of their own people, in peactime, in order to realize their impossible dreams. I further said that while utopianism is primarily now latent in the ideologies of the left, its Siamese twin nihilism, with all its socially corrosive attributes, is not. It is these destructive paradigms and these impossible dreams that are indeed dangerous and that are stil vibrant in the curriculum as taught on campuses like Harvard...